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Wrington in Somerset County England History and GeographyWRINGTON, a parish (formerly a market town) in a detached portion of the hundred of BRENT with WRINGTON, county of SOMERSET, 7 miles (N.N.E.) from Axbridge, containing, with the tything of Broadfield, 1349 inhabitants. This place, which is situated near the Mendip hills, is not distinguished either for trade or for any branch of manufacture; the inhabitants are principally employed in agricultural pursuits, especially in the cultivation of teasel, of which great quantities are produced in the neighbourhood, for the supply of the clothiers in the adjoining districts, who use it in dressing the cloth. The town consists principally of two streets, intersecting each other obliquely, with other houses irregularly built, and in detached situations. The market, originally granted in the reign of Edward II., was held on Tuesday; and a fair was held annually on the 9th of September; but both have fallen into disuse. The county magistrates hold petty sessions here. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £39. 9. 4½., and in the patronage of the Marquis of Cleveland. The church, dedicated to All Saints, and situated at the south-west extremity of the town, is a spacious and handsome structure, in the later style of English architecture, with a square embattled tower, surmounted by angular turrets crowned with pinnacles. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. Mr. George Legg, in 1704, bequeathed nine acres of land, now producing £20 per annum, for the instruction of twelve children of both sexes in reading the bible. The school of industry, in which from thirty to forty children were instructed, and which was partly supported by a dividend on £50 stock, the bequest of Mrs. Webb, has been united to the National schools which have been established; and Sunday schools, in connexion with the established church and the dissenting congregations, are supported by subscription. Mrs. Hannah More resided for twenty-five years in a cottage, built by herself and sisters, at Barley Wood, in this parish; and John Locke, the eminent philosopher, was born in an old thatched house on the north side of the churchyard, in 1632; after his decease, in 1704, an urn with an appropriate inscription was presented by Mrs. Montague to Mrs. Hannah More, and erected in the pleasure grounds at Barley Wood. Dr. John Rogers, an eminent divine, held the rectory of this parish, where he passed a considerable portion of his time. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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